Eunnuri Yi

The paper investigates how soil microbes affect phenotypic correlations in early-life traits of Medicago lupulina, finding that microbes alter leaf traits like area and trichome density independently of growth.

The paper examines how genetic variation in rhizobial bacteria affects host plant responses to parasitic nematodes, revealing transcriptomic and phenotypic differences.

The paper tests two hypotheses for why mutualistic microbes increase host susceptibility to parasites and finds that resource availability, not mutualism establishment, drives increased infection.